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Darwin Day in America : How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science.

At the dawn of the last century, leading scientists and politicians giddily predicted that science especially Darwinian biology would supply solutions to all the intractable problems of American society, from crime to poverty to sexual maladjustment. Instead, politics and culture were dehumanized as...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: West, John G.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Wilmington : ISI Books, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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